As an NIH-NIBIB designated Center for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, we promote human health by inventing and testing new technological paradigms in image-guided intraprocedural decision-making.
Illuminating real-time surgical decision-making with innovative optical imaging
Light-Based Technologies in Human Health
Advances in light-based technologies, such as those developed at the National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies (NCIBT), offer new opportunities to assess tissue biochemistry, physiology, and metabolism in real time. These capabilities can improve the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of conditions ranging from cancer and cardiovascular disease to stroke, infection, trauma, and degenerative diseases. NCIBT brings these technologies to the point of medical intervention, combining innovative optical imaging with artificial intelligence, data analytics, and visualization to provide clinicians with actionable information in real time. By advancing and broadly disseminating these technologies, we aim to improve clinical decision-making and human health.
Vision
Our vision is to enable a new generation of scalable, readily deployable optical technologies that seamlessly integrate with clinical workflows and provide real-time, actionable information at the point of intervention.
Mission
Our mission is to improve human health by advancing, integrating, translating, and disseminating innovative biophotonic technologies that address unmet needs in intraprocedural, image-guided clinical decision-making.
